%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> JOHN DAVIDSON, / MERCHANT, / At NEWBIGGING, near DRUMLITHIE, / Sells the FOLLOWING GOODS at the lowest Prices. / MY Customers all of different Ranks, / To you I do return my Thanks, / For all your former Favours granted, / A grateful Sense I never wanted. / That you may be the better sorted, / I've bought my Goods the last imported; / And what I fell, that you may know, / Is noted in the Bill below. Davidson, John University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1764-1764 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 05/10/2011 31174

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T29128 HEre's Lint and Tow, both white and blue, / All Sorts of Cards, both and and new; Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 477 JOHN DAVIDSON, / MERCHANT, / At NEWBIGGING, near DRUMLITHIE, / Sells the FOLLOWING GOODS at the lowest Prices. / MY Customers all of different Ranks, / To you I do return my Thanks, / For all your former Favours granted, / A grateful Sense I never wanted. / That you may be the better sorted, / I've bought my Goods the last imported; / And what I fell, that you may know, / Is noted in the Bill below. JOHN DAVIDSON, MERCHANT, At NEWBIGGING, near DRUMLITHIE, Sells the FOLLOWING GOODS at the lowest Prices. MY Customers all of different Ranks, To you I do return my Thanks, For all your former Favours granted, A grateful Sense I never wanted. That you may be the better sorted, I’ve bought my Goods the last imported: And what I sell, that you may know, Is noted in the Bill below. JOHN DAVIDSON, MERCHANT, At Newbigging, near Drumlithie, Sells the FOLLOWING GOODS at the lowest Prices. MY Customers all of different Ranks, To you I do return my Thanks, For all your former Favors granted, A grateful Sense I never wanted. That you may be the better sorted, I’ve bought my Goods the last imported: And what I sell, that you may know, Is noted in the Bill below. Davidson, John 1764-1764

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HEresLint and Tow, both white and blue, All Sorts of Cards, both old and new; Powder-Sugar, Starch, and Soap, Garden-Seeds of last Years Crop. Fine Pearl-ashes, Corks, and Spice, Sugar-candy, Cards and Dice, White-Iron Mugs to hold your Drink, Writing Paper, Pens and Ink. Barley here instead of Grotts, Honey-canes and Chamber-Pots, Napkins made at Aberdeen, Ginger too, both white and green. English Wool, and Factory Backs, Wafers, and some Sticks of Wax. Brimstone, and the Flour of such, With other Things to cure the Itch. Tar and Iron, Salt and Lead, Raisins, Allum, and Ginger-bread, Rock-Indigo thats good and true, With † What dye cat, for hasty Blue. Snuff-Boxes, Bibles, Carlisle Hooks, New Testaments and good Prayer Books, Good Epsom here and Glauber Salts, With other Physick, free of Faults. Senna Leaf, Rhubarb, and Pills, Rosin, Birse, and Timber Heels, Oxycrotion, Wax of Bees, Empty Casks, and Dry-ware Trees, Garters, Tapes, Bone Combs and Horn, Fine Tobacco, twist or shorn, Story Books of unco Stuff, And I sell John Cushnies Snuff. New English Hops, none better grows, Fine pickt Ropes and other Tows, Heres good salt Butter in whole Kitts, Horses Girths and sniffle Bits. Turpentine Oil, and fine sweet Sack, Burgundy Pitch, and good Lampblack, Metal Pots both great and sma, And Carron Hoops just fit to ca. Train Oil I have and also Green, Spectacles to fit your Een, Sleeve Buttons, Needles, Pins and Awls, Copperas and Aleppo Galls. Melasses, Cinnamon, and Glue, Saddle-Tacks, and Saffron too; Black Beer, Vinegar, and Honey, Goods for Trust or Ready-Money. Fresh Rye Grass, and Clover Seed, Buckram, Cords, and colourd Thread, Metal Buttons, Hair and Horn, All sorts thats in the Country worn. Earthen Plates, and small brown Mugs, White Iron Mills, and bigger Jugs, Moyhair and fine silk Threads, Carvy too and Annise Seeds. White Soap, Gunpowder, Flints and Shot, And Timber Cats, theyre but a Groat, Dram Glasses, Vials, Wheeling Wire, Tobacco Pipes, and other Geir. † Brazil and Verdigrease.
Fine white Thread and Cambrick Knitting, Good Cheques to sell that sit for Metting, A foreign Herb sometimes they drink it, With many other useful Trinket. All sorts of Gun-stones here enew, White Iron Cakes, and Button Blue, Of Liquorish I have a share, And Weavers Brushes, several Pair. Leather Points of good Sheep-hides, Twenty other Things besides, All sorts of Nails and Stobs I keep, Wi guid Woo Sheers to clip your [sheep.] Most kinds of Stone Ware here you[ll see] With Cups and Saucers fit for Tea Large white Bowls, and Quart Decanters, Tea Pots too for those thats Wanters. Gimblets here of any size, ‡ Of Chamber Pots Ill tell you twice; Youll may be think I dot for sport, But I can shew you any sort. Glasgow Napkins great and small, Button Moulds and Vitriol, Nutmegs and Sugar allogrease, Fine ground Mustard and Scots Cheese For want of Good if you should fre[t] § At any Time Ill sell dry Skate, The best Wheel Bands I eer did [handle] With Mustard Boxes and White Candle Ive finest Flour of English make, And if you please, the same Ill Bake; That is a Branch I still pursue, Heres Loaves and Biskets always New. Likewise your Meal, Bear, Rye, or Oat, Ill Bake a Firlot for a Groat; I keep an Oven always warm, But with your Meal pray send me Barm. And Wives and Lasses far and near, To you Ive other sort o Geir; And I may swear and not be cheated, That a the Parish coud no beat it. Its Factory Lint from Gordons Mills. Whose Character the Mearns fills, And my Advice I give you a, Come take it eer the Prices fa, Now when you have read oer this List, Theres other Things that I have mist[?] Quick Silver, different Kinds of Saw, Amongst the rest, one for the Claw, Brazilicon, Dipalme, Hemp, Harvest Gloves for those that Kemp, More useful Things I might advise, Troth heres good Ointment for the lay Now if youll be so very good, As come to me, I think you shoud; If youve but little for to spend, Ill thank you kindly, come or send. Now tho I have some Things forgot, What Goods I have is a new bought, Im at a Word, I like no Prigging, My Names John Davidson at Newbigging. ‡ Stone and Earth ones of all Sorts. §Sold at 25. per lib.
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